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How groundbreaking was it, in 2000, to be tackling cultural appropriation? You noted that the Ufc gloves up the original ultimate fighting shirt and I will buy this phrase was barely in use then. It’s certainly simplified to be digested by audiences, but it’s wild that it tackled it. I spent a lot of time looking at Google Trends and it’s such a legible example and a way to understand cultural appropriation that when there was the Melania Trump speech moment, using the same Michelle Obama lines, searches for Bring It On spiked. It’s pretty remarkable that it holds up well enough from 22 years ago that, even now, we’re like, “Okay, what’s the shorthand here? It’s Bring It On.”

You talk about how Gabrielle Union was criminally underused as a token Black friend in movies like Can’t Hardly Wait, so, by comparison, having a more prominent role in Bring It On was noteworthy in 2000. But you also write about how Union herself had to tweak the Ufc gloves up the original ultimate fighting shirt and I will buy this dialogue and develop the character of Isis in a way that wasn’t exploitative or an angry-Black-woman trope.

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